Luka sat talking to the Hospital's Police Officer that was always on duty during his work hours, Officer Tanner. He was a rather big man, not in the bad way but Officer Tanner often bragged about working out on a daily bases. Luka wasn't scared of Officer Tanner, but he didn't want to be caught on this man's bad side.

"So, we will have to find her a new foster family to take her in?" Luka questioned Officer Tanner on his new found job, to find Madison a new foster family or permit family to live with.

"Yep, I'll turn this report in on the family and have a fellow officer come in and question Miss Lamkin. From there she will have to stay in the hospital until she is placed in a home, it is either that or she goes with one of my fellow officers to the police station and we will have a place for her to stay there." Officer Tanner said while look doing at Luka from his 6' 3" Height.

"I think she would be more comfortable her in the hospital." Luka responded to the bulky man.

"Alright, she becomes your responsibility, Now Mr. Kovac. First, you must sigh this contract saying you are going to be her guardian until you find her a new family to go to." Officer Tanner handed Luka a clipboard with about 10 papers under the large clip. "Just page me when you are done and I will come get them from you, and then she is all yours."

"Alright, thank you officer." Luka nodded to Officer Tanner than turned and headed towards Madison's room.

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Luka walked into Madison's room and noticed she was sleeping so he silently let the door shut behind him before taking the seat he had before he left. He started reading all the fine print initialling and signing here and there. He didn't know how long he had been sitting there when Madison slowly began to stir from her sleep.

"These beds are not comfortable. Did you know that?" She complained as she began to tug at the pillows and blankets to see if she could make it anymore comfortable.

Luka chuckled at this soon he came to a stop when he came to the last signature on the contract, "Madison I spoke with the Police Officer here on duty and for me to find you a new Foster Family or quite possibly a permit Family I have to take custody of you or you would go with the Police officer and stay at the Police Station until they find you a new place to stay. The choice is yours which do you want?" She just stared blankly at him.

"You are asking me where I want to go? I get a choice?" She questioned looking at him as if he grew a second head.

"Yes Madison you get the choice of where you are going to go."

"Well Dr. Luka, I would like to stay with you. You have cared for me when I didn't even ask for it and no one has ever done that for me. I wish to stay with you if you are willing to take me." She responded to his question hoping she would take her and give her a home.

"I am more than willing to take you. I just wanted to ask you before I signed the last line. I don't want to do anything that you don't want to do." With that said look took the black pen and the clipboard from the side table, where he had placed it earlier, flipped to the last page of the contract and placed the pen on the line and then looked up at her. Her eyes showed hope and longing for a new family and he was not about to turn her down from that. He smiled up at her before turning back to the task at hand and signed his full name on the line before getting up and paging Officer Tanner.

He came back to sit next to her and looked up at her. She was smiling, probably the biggest smile he had ever seen her smile since she had been here.

"Does this mean I get to call you Dad for the time being?" She looked at him and started to laugh. Soon he joined in. But suddenly Luka's pager went off which made him jump out of his chair.

"I'll be back soon there was an accident and the need me. I will be back soon." He said as he stood by the door talking to her. She nodded and waved good bye to him.

"Oh, and when I get back my girlfriend should be here on her shift. I would like it if you would meet her because she lives with me and I presume that you will too." She smiled at him from across the tiny room.

"Of Course I'll meet her. Now go a sick person needs you." He smiled at her and then turned and rushed out the door. Madison sighed in the bed. She turned on her side making sure she wasn't tangled up in the cords that were still attached to her and checking to see if the position would mess with her stitches on her arm. Soon she feel asleep with a small smile on her face. She had a good home for once.

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Luka let out a long sigh. He had almost lost the patient on the table but at the last second a heart beat came back up on the screen and there was a steady beep of the monitors in the room. He had blood all over the coat that he wore in the room and he couldn't even find a place where the white of the gloves shone through the blood. Sam helped him pull of the blood covered coat and gloves as the other nurse wheeled the man into another room.

"So I heard from Officer Tanner that you have a foster daughter on your hands." Sam asked as they washed their hands in the huge sinks by the emergency room.

"You heard right. When I asked her if she wanted me to help her find a new family her blue eyes lit up and I couldn't possibly say no to her when she asked if I wanted her." Luka explained.

"Well you better tell Abby she got here about a couple a minutes before that guy came in." She said as she pulled some towels down from their place on the wall, taking one for herself and handing one to Luka.

"Thank you I better go tell her." Luka said as he finished drying his hands. He threw the now damp towel in the dry pile and walked out the door into the main lobby. Abby was there reading over some of her new patients files.

"Abby I have to talk to you about my new patient that came into day." Luka said looking down from his height. She smiled up at him and then soon they walked of together.

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"Are you sure about this Luka?" Abby asked. She had been silent through the whole tale. Learning about what this girls foster parents did to her she shed a few tears.

"Abby she doesn't have a place to go. She needs a caring home and we can give that to her. I know this will not replace the child we lost but Abby her eyes the pain they held when she spoke of her Foster Parents and what she went through. Then the images in my mind of her looking past me while I was in the car and then her collapsing. I can't get them out of my head. Maybe I'm losing my mind by doing this, but she wants a family so bad I feel like I owe it to her to help her in finding a good loving one." Luka explained looking at Abby in the eyes.

Abby sat starring at her feet for a couple of minutes. Luka didn't interrupt her because he knew she was thinking. Soon she looked up at Luka, "So when do I get to meet our new 'daughter'?"

Luka looked up at her and smiled, "Thank you Abby, you will fall in love with her when you see her."

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Okay so there is Chapter 3! Yay!

Thank you Hibbs and fuzzypinkpens for your reviews!

Chapter 4 should be up soon but like I said 2 pratices a day each 2 hours. I just puting in a couple of words here and there when I get a chance too. I still think Luka is a little out of charater...? Tell me what you think and this time you'll get...

a CUPCAKE!

with...

SPRINKLES!

-Kalani